United States Sheet II. Eastern States

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Lithograph, hand-colored in outline by Philip, George & Son, published 1852 by Liverpool. Philip & Son. Image size: 530 by 610mm (20 by 24 inches). George Philip & Son was a leading British geographical publisher founded in Liverpool and later based in London, producing atlases, educational maps, and globes throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries. Their mid-19th-century maps of North America combined careful British survey traditions with the latest American geographical data, offering a high-quality reference for British readers at a time of intense interest in the expanding United States and British colonial territories in Canada. Large double page hand colored antique map, showing decorative in a large scale the Eastern United States around 1852, additional ornated with two inset maps with a map of New York, Boston & Albany and the other one with the peninsula of Southern Florida. The map provides detailed information on place names, streets, trails, rivers and political borders. A very good to excellent example, printed on the full sheet as published, however the lower margin slightly narrow (as published). Just cut on the engraved border line.

Philip, George & Son – United States Sheet II. Eastern States · Antique Map, Lithograph · 530 x 610mm · Liverpool. Philip & Son 1852